That's great news.  My daughter is attending UC Davis next term. The bad news is the precarious state of the levees, but I don't know how much that threatens Davis.

I too live in a "cycling friendly" town. Cyclists are numerous and influential.  But this very fact leads to tension and hostility.  Motorists feel challenged, but they know that they are still the large majority -- that in sheer numerical terms, they are the "normal" ones.

I'm a rare poster here, although I follow TOD fairly regularly, but I couldn't resist this one because I live in Davis.

This certainly is a bike-friendly town (I've ridden mine to work at the university for many years now). It helps that this is a fairly small, and very flat, university town. The large number of students on bikes helps our numbers enormously, although a recent survey of bicycling in Davis showed that bike ridership among students is down somewhat compared to the students of yesteryear.

The town has grown a lot in recent years and has become more of a bedroom community for people who work elsewhere. Not too much daily biking among this crowd. The university is the largest employer, but real estate prices in Davis are so stratospheric that only a minority of university staff can afford to live in the town that they work in.